Due to the impending lockdown in Saxony my travel plans have changed and I have a free day in Belgium in a couple of weeks. I will be staying in Mechelen and was wondering if there's any unusual stock moves to travel on or some aging or loco hauled stuff around. Thanks!
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StephenHunter
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Mechelen is on the Brussels-Antwerp route and there is plenty of loco-hauled operations around, including the NS/SNCB IC Direct Services.
Not sure if this is still true, but the P(Peak)- trains through Brussels used to produce the older locos and stock.
Fireless
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You can find the planned trains for particular types of rolling stock on https://www.beluxtrains.net/indexen.php.
Mechelen is quite a convenient location for the HLE27 (older type of electric loco from the early 1980s) workings on some of the IC trains between Brussel and Antwerpen.
Mechelen is quite a convenient location for the HLE27 (older type of electric loco from the early 1980s) workings on some of the IC trains between Brussel and Antwerpen.
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Belgium has lots of loco hauled stuff running around on their network.
The local and regional trains (L- and S- trains) are operated with units, many of them being Desiro MLs, on the longer distance routes you're very likely to find HLE 18s, HLE 21s and HLE 27s pushing or pulling coaches. The Belgian railways' M6 double decker coaching stock is very comfortable.
On HSL 2, the high speed railway between Leuven and Liège, loco hauled trains travel at speeds of up to 200 km/h. Look for trains traveling between Oostende and Eupen, those go via HSL2.
You can view the booked formations of Belgian trains on this website: BeLuxTrains in english
The local and regional trains (L- and S- trains) are operated with units, many of them being Desiro MLs, on the longer distance routes you're very likely to find HLE 18s, HLE 21s and HLE 27s pushing or pulling coaches. The Belgian railways' M6 double decker coaching stock is very comfortable.
On HSL 2, the high speed railway between Leuven and Liège, loco hauled trains travel at speeds of up to 200 km/h. Look for trains traveling between Oostende and Eupen, those go via HSL2.
You can view the booked formations of Belgian trains on this website: BeLuxTrains in english
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